Ron with his eyes open with Lori and Earlene

Happy Birthday Earlene!!!

Earlene celebrated her birthday with most of her children Feb. 16th!!!  We missed Vicki!!!  Hope to see everyone soon.  The food and company was great.  Happy Birthday MOM, we love you!

The Brother's (Ron, Scott and Kent) relaxing at Mom's.

Nathan & Grandma Shelly

Nathan and Grandma Shelly having fun.  This picture is and oldie but goodie.  Nathan turned 9 months old today.  He is all over the home now, we do have a play pen handy and a crib set up for little breaks when needed.

Mom and Dad at the 50th Bash December 2007

Cute Picture of mom and dad dancing.  They will be celebrating their 50th in August of 2008!

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary Joe & Gay Hansen!!!

Dad's younger Brother Joe and wife Gay at their big 50's themed  party.

An evening out!

Here we are together at my Uncle Joe and Aunt Gay's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party.  It was a great evening.

We love you Great-Grandpa Hansen, Ryan and Nathan

We love you guys...this is for you Ryan thought you'd enjoy this one!

Jenny Chase & Anthony's Reception

My good friend Paula Chase and family at Jenny Chase's reception:  From left to right Karen, Paula, myself, Rebecca and Cheryl

Earlene with her brothers Bob, Jack and Jimmy Chase.

Here are the newlyweds Jenny and Anthony!  I think she looks gorgeous.  It was a really fun reception, Great Cake too!

Big Boy Nathan Standing!!!

This big boy likes to stand and I believe he will be walking sooner than later.  I'll keep you posted.  What a sweet little face.  This is one of the mornings I watched Nathan.

Standing and liking it! 8 1/2 months old now.

Buddies

Just a couple of cute pictures of Rebecca and Nathan.  Nathan really likes all his aunts.  He especially loves Becca cause she has dark hair like Amber.  

Grandma Shelly & Nathan

JOY!

Here Nathan is checking out the newspaper for the results of the Super Bowl.  He was excited about the Perfect Upset!

Nathan Crawling

Here is Nathan in ready "crawling position".  He can really move now.  He is all over, but he really likes to walk with help.  He is now 8  1/2 months old.  He likes to wave and puts his one hand out to reach out to you when he comes over to the home.  We get to see our grandson pretty often which is wonderful.  He brings a great light into our home. 

Dad & Mom feeling better!!!

Dad and Mom feeling better again. This picture was actually taken in July of 2007. I just wanted to put it up for fun cause I think it's a good one.
I am getting ready to start using our new mac computer and finally have recovered from the holidays and getting Ryan moved up to Provo.

Happy New Year 2008 Friends and Family

NEW PHOTOS COMING SOON!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Look how cute Nathan is, I can't help it. Too many cute photos of the grandson and parents.

Look how good Nathan is sitting up now. Almost 6 months old.

Thankful for the Martin Family!

Thankful for my son-in-law and grandson!

Thankful to have Sandi and Matt close by us in California!

It was great to have Sandi and Matt over for a little while before they went to Pasadena to be with Matt's family. His family are all going on a mexican cruise tommorow. Sandi and Matt are excited to go on a little getaway! They were able to take a family picture with us for our Christmas card. I think we got one. With 11 people now in the family it is no easy task.

Nathan trying to pull a fast one and pull mom's thanksgiving feast!

Happy Thanksgiving one and all.

PARIS EIFFEL TOWER SPARKLING -August 2007

Here we are on the Eiffel tower when it is lit up. They make it sparkle every hour at night for about 10 min. It was about midnight here or close to it. That was quite a climb for me to get to the second platform on the tower. I barely made it. We had lots of fun taking these pictures, lots of laughs.

Kelly making friends in Paris!

Kelly feeding the ducks in Paris.

Special park and lake we found in Paris!

What a fun day at this park we had. Ryan really wanted to go off to a park while we were in Paris. We found a park on the map, hopped on the subway and off we went to explore this park with lake. What a great time we had here. Very relaxing day time here!

Relaxing out on the lake in Paris

Ryan our happy rower. Thanks for the tour of the lake.

We had heavenly weather and surroundings. It was one of the highlights of our trip to Paris. We needed a break from all the walking and touring of museums.

Feeding the birds in Paris!

PARIS- Bois de Vincennes Park August 2007

This was a great day out on a row boat on this little lake at park bois de vicennes in Paris. We had such a relaxing day out here. Ryan pretty much rowed us around this whole lake for about an hour. We fed some ducks and just enjoyed this beautiful day and just enjoyed resting on the boat. The clouds were so pretty.

August 26th, 2007 Inside the Vatican Museums!

One of the many statues we saw inside the vatican museums, Kelly and Ryan checking it out.

Vatican City-August 2007

We actually came here on two days, so we had more time to explore and see the Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica, and see the Sistine Chapel. I loved this more than I thought. Loved the amazing art we saw here. I bought a book detailing what we saw and could not take pictures of so if you ever want to see that before you go to Italy.

One of the most impressive works we saw! Michelangelo was only twenty-five years old when he did this piece of art, for the jubilee of 1500AD. It is the only work signed by the artist (his name is carved on the sash of the Madonna).

This was taken inside the vatican museum looking out.

Italy a very beautiful country! August 25, 2007

It was really fun traveling by train, once we were on board! We had a couple of close calls while boarding. We made a couple of trains by seconds. We took 4 different rides. This is a picture of what a lot of the scenery looks like. This was a very restful way to travel, I highly recommend it. Just make sure you have a reserved seat whatever class your traveling on. Then you can really relax and enjoy!

On our way to Rome by train...nice view!

Here is one of the pictures I took while we were traveling to Rome by train. There were places like this along the way, sitting atop the hillsides.

Rome is HOT! August 25, 2007

Here we are at the end of touring the colosseum, you can't tell how hot it is here. We loved looking all over on the different levels at the collosseum. Lots of cool old statues and art done at the time. Time for some Gelato!!! Rome was very impressive, loved thinking about all the things that went on there many years ago.

Kelly and Ryan in Rome-August 25, 2007